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187 SWINBURNE WELLS (Charles) JOSEPH AND HIS BRETHREN, a Dramatic Poem, 

 with an Introduction by Algernon Charles Swinburne, London, Chatto and Windus, 

 1876, 8vo, with oval photograph \of the author on title, some pencil annotations, fine 



fresh copy in the original cloth, uncut, 255 



First edition with Swinburne's Introduction. The author was the friend of Keats, Hazlitt and 

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1 88 SWINBURNE RELIC [KYD (Thomas)] THE TRAGEDIE OF SOLIMON AND 

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FROM THE LIBRARY OF THE LATE POET ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE WITH THE FOLLOWING 

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189 SWIFTIANA A VOYAGE TO CACKLOGALLINIA : with a Description of the 

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RARE. Written in imitation of Swift's Gulliver's Travels. 



190 THACKERAY (W. M.) THE KICKLEBURYS ON THE RHINE, by Mr. M. A. 

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191 THOREAU (Henry David) Famous American Author and Naturalist. AUTO- 

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AUTHORS. Mentions his " A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers " and " Walden," 

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192 TOBACCO LA PHYSIOLOGIE nu FUMEUR, Paris, E. Bourdin, n.d., sq. izmo, 

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TOBACCO MAGNENUS (J. C.) DK TABACO EXERCITATIONES QUATUORDECIM 

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